Pluto Wins Intergeneration Award at Angoulême International Comic Festival - Forums

01-30-11, 9:50 PM

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According to official website, Urasawa Naoki's manga Pluto was announced to be the winner of the Intergeneration Award at Angoulême International Comics Festival 2011. The award is given to the best bande dessinée, comics and manga for wide range of audience. Urasawa had won the Prize for a Series by 20th Century Boys at the festival in 2004.

Source: Angoulême International Comics Festival

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#2 01-30-11, 10:18 PM
mikhailn Offline Joined: May 2009 Posts: 342	Congratulations. Though with it being based off Tesuwan Atom it feels as though he was riding Tezuka's coattails. But whatever, they're both excellent pieces of work in their own right

#3 01-30-11, 10:22 PM
StormViruz Offline Joined: May 2010 Posts: 2237	Urasawa Naoki sure is a great manga artist. His works like Monster, 20th Century Boys and now Pluto are all award-winning. :)

#4 01-30-11, 10:38 PM
AlexSadist-sama Offline Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 67069	I've wanted to check Pluto out but never got around to it.

#5 01-30-11, 10:39 PM
theunfettered Offline Joined: Oct 2010 Posts: 136	makes awesome face

#6 01-30-11, 10:41 PM
belatkuro Offline Joined: Feb 2009 Posts: 3992	AlexSadist-sama said: I've wanted to check Pluto out but never got around to it. Same. Makes me want to check it out, along with his other works.

#7 01-31-11, 1:37 AM
Sunao Offline Joined: Jul 2007 Posts: 1057	Pluto totally deserved the prize just by having names like Urasawa and Tezuka behind it's awesomesauce. People who love manga should be obligated to read Tezuka's works. Without him manga wouldn't exist at all (or at least it would be really different of what it is now). Urasawa is another genius with genius works like Monster and Pluto.

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01-31-11, 1:44 AM

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This is awesome and most-deserving win in a long time.

Every manga of Urasawa has been an awesome ride (maybe except Monster which i found a bit too bland for Urasawa's standards).

I loved the mysteriousness and atmosphere of Pluto. I loved the slowly unraveling plot and the huge wtfdidnotseeitcoming twist that came. Urasawa took something i half-didnot care(astro boy) and turned the concepts in it into something that could have come form the mind of Isaac Asimov(seriously the way it handled robots reminded me a lot of the laws of robotics and overall portrayal)

His newest manga, Billy Bat is just as awesome(and maybe even more so) and I hope that one day it will also get its deserved attention.

Its quite sade that we are getting rush-rushed by generic yaoi/shounen/schoolife and so on type of anime series and movies and Urasawa's works(apart from monster) do not get the needed and deserved attention in anime community.

#9 01-31-11, 2:33 AM
ForsakenArcher Offline Joined: Aug 2009 Posts: 2021	Congrats. That's my favorite manga winning an award. We are the United. Even in defeat we stand united.

#10 01-31-11, 5:11 AM
Mr_Gutts Offline Joined: Nov 2008 Posts: 2455	congrats i guess i shoud check both of them out

#11 01-31-11, 8:14 AM
Neverarine Offline Joined: Apr 2010 Posts: 3155	cool, i guess... "If only if only, the woodpecker cried, the bark on the tree was as soft as the sky" \|\| ♪My mind, heart is broken♫

#12 01-31-11, 11:25 AM
LeandroGado Offline Joined: Mar 2008 Posts: 118	great :D naoki is a pro of manga im happy for this news ^^ iSignature

#13 01-31-11, 2:13 PM
Eternal_Shield Offline Joined: Jan 2010 Posts: 1453	i wanted to read it when MAL showed "the manga of the week Pluto' but i never read it & it got some awards so i better check it out

#14 01-31-11, 4:53 PM
biakudryavka Offline Joined: Oct 2009 Posts: 316	Even though I haven't read the manga yet, I'm sure it deserves this award, congratulations~ Being so innocent as it is, a really really erotic scene in Kimi ni Todoke would be a french kiss between Sawako and Kazehaya?

#15 01-31-11, 5:05 PM
BlackSnake56 Offline Joined: Sep 2009 Posts: 965	i will check out this manga

#16 01-31-11, 5:26 PM
Babels Offline Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 78	Pluto FTW!

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01-31-11, 6:49 PM

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To anyone who HAS NOT read Urasawa yet: PLEASE DO SO!!

He has written some of the most brilliant and intriguing manga series.

PLUTO is a nice blend of SF, mystery, suspence and action.

bla bla bla

The endless debate between fans and haters. At one point, after spending a lot of time on MAL, you just realize it's totally pointless.

Niko-kun said:
On MAL, everyone who has used the lame rating system becomes a critic and an intellectual by default, haven't you heard?

#18 01-31-11, 8:06 PM
LemonLyme Offline Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 944	Urasawa Naoki once again winning awards as he should be. Probably the most consistently really good mangaka out there.

#19 02-04-11, 10:38 AM
Monad Offline Joined: Jun 2008 Posts: 8736	LemonLyme said: Urasawa Naoki once again winning awards as he should be. Probably the most consistently really good mangaka out there. a great mangaka but i think another reason he wins such awards is because his style of storytelling and art is a nice mix of Japanese and European way.